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Sweta overcomes Parvathy

By Our Sports Reporter

Swetha (on top) of Tamil Nadu beat Parvathy of Kerala in the seventh women's sub-junior 46kg wrestling championship in Chennai on Friday.

CHENNAI MAY 23. A last minute entry into the Tamil Nadu team, 18-year-old Sweta, a Delhiite, defeated Parvathy of Kerala by fall in the first league round 46kg sub-junior category of the National women's wrestling championship, which commenced, at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium on Friday.

In another interesting bout in the 43kg sub-junior section, Punjab's Paramjeet fought hard before going down to Nitu Sharma of Madhya Pradesh on points.

Earlier, Mr. N. Viswanathan, Transport Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu, inaugurated the championship.

While all the events went as per schedule, the media management from the organisational point of view turned out to be flop.

The schedule of the bouts was not given properly, added to that was the inadequate co-ordination with the mediamen, who were not well-versed with the sport.

The results that were given after repeated demands, were handwritten and not wholly legible.

Meanwhile, in an interesting development, one Andhra Pradesh contingent, headed by Mr. Gangadhara Rao (the letterhead says that he is the Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Amateur Wrestling Association) told that he expected an answer from the National Federation as to why his team cannot be allowed to participate.

Armed with the invitation letter, he claimed he was informed of the non-inclusion only when he reached Chennai. However, the other team Andhra team has been approved by the Federation and is taking part.

Reacting to this, Mr. Rohthash Singh, Secretary, Wrestling Association of Tamil Nadu said the Wrestling Federation of India has suspended the unit, and that he has got instructions from WFI regarding the same.

Other results:

Sub-junior: 38Kg: S. Sherina Chanu (Asm) bt Rasmi Tyagi (UP) by fall; Ankita Bhardwaj (Del) bt Surya (Ker) by fall; Sapna (MP) bt Pooja Kohla (Mah) by fall; Saya Rani (Man) bt K. Souyanija (AP) by fall; Minaxi Garg (Raj) bt Shweta (NCR Delhi)) by fall.

40Kg: Mandeep Kaur (Pun) bt Ankita (Ker) by fall; Priyanka (UP) bt P. Ratima Nayar (Ors) by fall; Neetu (UA) w/o Dipti (Del); C. Lalhmangaihi (Miz) bt Shivani (NCR Delhi) by fall; Vidya Rajput (Mah) vt Hirkani (AP) by fall.

43 Kg: Versha Som (UP) bt Swati Kare (Mah) by fall; Sumesh (UA) bt Monu Gochar (Raj) by fall; Rachana Shekhwat (Har) bt Santosh (Tamil Nadu) by fall; Nitu Sharma (MP) bt Paramjit (Pun) by fall; Sucharita Barik (Ors) bt Anupam Sharma (Chd) by fall; Kusum Lata Sharma (Del) bt Lalmvensngi (Miz) by fall.

46Kg: L. Ranjana Devi (Man) bt Annu Rani (Del) by fall; Surjeet Kaur (Chd) bt Preeti (NCR Delhi) by fall; Guddi Ponar (UP) bt Rashmi Bedi (Pun) by fall; Sudesh (Har) bt Sanchal Nagpore (Mar) by fall; Rekha (UA) bt Rambha (Ori) by fall.

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